Messages in this thread | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: IO stats in /proc/partitions | Date | Sun, 5 May 2002 14:55:03 -0200 |
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On 4 May 2002 19:35, Tomas Szepe wrote: > > I recently spent a week trying to track down the units used for the disk > > stats in /proc/stat. Through a combination of queries on the LKML and > > trucking through the source with rgrep, I managed to get my questions > > answered. It matters to me and to the people I work for exactly how many > > bytes the I/O subsystem is handling per second, and how close to the > > capacity of the I/O subsystem a machine is operating. I consider the fact > > that I had to dig for and ask for this information unacceptable. > > But hey, you've suffered thru it, which, guess what, makes you the perfect > candidate to have the honor of writing the docs!
And peppering code with cute little comments + feeding patches to Rusty's 'trivial' patchbot.
BTW, are units consistent? Kilobytes? Pages? Sectors? -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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